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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Secure Your Website
From the Google Blog. Advice as to securely encrypting your online sites, beyond Https. Its National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Technical, but worth talking...
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Re Predictions of IOT Growth
In part depends on how you define it. Smart Home IOT has exploded, but security has added an element of caution.Why the Internet of Things isn’t growing as rapidly...
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Quantum Computing
A fairly good, non technical description and use overview of quantum computing. Likely suitable for use for executive questions.What is quantum computing? The ...
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Robotic Reliability vs Reasoning with Transparency
We came up with some similar conclusions. That observed reliability was typically much more important that people thought, and it was best to solve that problem...
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Humor that Works: and a new Book!
My former P&G Colleague Andrew Tarvin has been awarded to the prestigious group:P&G Alumni Visionaries under 40Announcing our “Visionaries Under 40” to be recognized...
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Building More General, Trustable AI: Deeper Understanding?
I have just been thinking about the idea of what is called 'deep understanding' here. That is more generally applicable AI. Agree that deep learning is impressive...
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Teams Fighting Burnout
Rarely seen this attempted, or effectively done. Lip service. In one on one cases, but not as a group. Rewards? And usually too late. Teams Fight Burnout Together...
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What do the Next 20 Years Hold for AI?
And the President of AAAI gives a short, nontechnical interview on the future of AI. Points to a new road map on this topic, reading now.What do the next 20 years...
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AI Improving Biomedical Imaging
It is notable how modern AI is doing best in 'vision' spaces. As opposed to what I would call conversational interaction and process logic. Not what we would...
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Rethinking Procurement in Retail
A long time space of ours, McKinsey sums it up:Rethinking Procurement in RetailFor retailers, procurement is no longer solely a matter of negotiating “A” brands...
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Alexa Still Competing Best in the Home
Agree, have just been taking it into the car with Echo Auto. Of course its still competing versus the smart phone screen. In fact all connections with Echo devices...
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Detecting Frustration to Enhance Conversation
A better means giving feedback? We do in human conversation, in a two way or multi-way conversation we stop for questions, notice frowns, gestures, complaints...
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Cobol Still in Use
I started coding well after COBOL had declined, but key parts of the company were still being run by COBOL code. It still did many of the logical things required...
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Personas in Customer Service
What we did in the 80s .... but used an existing advertising persona that was already well know, Then used a AI driven chatbot system to drive their interaction...
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AI, Creativity and the Slime Mold
Quire an interesting piece out of Engadget, pointer to a new book I just received but have not read. we got AI to show us possibilities, and even automatically...
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Towards an Analytics Academy
We kind of did this during an earlier AI era. It worked early on, but was not connected well enough to the needs of the company, and expectations of it being democratized...
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Enhanced Packaging via Google Lens
Enhancing packaging with scans? I thought this had been done already with QR codes, I still see it on packages. Google lens can be found on IOS and Android. ...
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Measures for AI
Essential to get these straight, sometimes quite simple, often not. How do they link to goals?The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI in Fast.AIWritten...
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Quantum Supremacy
In a recent conversation the term 'Quantum Supremacy' came up and I mentioned it here, and the concept also was implied in some writing today. Google has made...
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